Five Gold for Ukraine!
After the competitions in Baku, Doha, Cottbus, Ljubljana and and at the last weekend of April in Osijek / Croatia now the next and already 6th FIG Challenge Cup in the Olympic year - takes place now in Varna, Bulgaria. Double winner of the first final day there was the best European gymnast Oleg Verniaev from Ukraine, winning the floor exercice and the pommel horse final, and he was second on stillrings behind his...
The Six-time world all-around and Olympic Champion Kohei UCHIMURA won his eighth consecutive title at the 55th NHK Trophy 2016 in Tokyo, where runner-up Ryohei KATO clinched his second Olympic berth. Uchimura scored its second routine sensational 93, 350 points (first routine: 91,300 = 184,650).
The remaining three gymnasts will be named to the team following the Japanese national event championships in June.
On women's side 2012 Olympian Asuka TERAMOTO (Chukyo University) won the all-around earning...
After the competitions in Baku, Doha, Cottbus and Ljubljana at the last weekend of April takes place the FIG Challenge Cup No. 5 in the Olympic year - the Grand Prix Tournament in Osijek / Croatia. Most successfull gymnast there was the Brit Elissa DOWNIE, who won all the four final events despite the strong Russian opponents ...
In front of the European Championships this year will follow in May the Challenge Cups in Varna (BUL) and in...
A few weeks before the Junior European Championships of women's artistic gymnastics in late May in Bern / Switzerland, the Swiss U15 Junior selection receives her rivals from Germany, France and Great Britain as a final test before the upcoming international highlight of the year! The competitions took place at the last April weekend as part of the "Züri GYM Days 2016" of the Swiss "Zurich Gymnastics Federation" (ZTV). Best of the teams were the British Junior squad and...
QUAAS & QUEEN
S E N I O R P O W E R !
. In honor of the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, the "oldest active competitive artistic gymnast in the world", the also 90-years old German Johanna Quaas, citizen of Halle (GER), wants to dedicate her planned tandem skydive the British Queen: "I admire this woman my whole life long, as she causes even in difficult times despite many...